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Tinder helps petition for interracial couple emojis

February 27, 2018

BY CNNMoney - Sara Ashley O'Brien

A group of advocates which include dating app Tinder, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and the founder of Emojinotion, Jennifer 8, are asking Unicode Consortium to add interracial couple emoji into its mix. The Consortium is the nonprofit that reviews and develops emoji standards,

In a proposal made public on Tuesday, they ask for the addition of 21 different sequences with various skin tones for the existing emoji, "couple with heart," for example.